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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, pages 35, from the sentence that starts, “I had so to speak only one leg…” through page 54, the sentence that starts “Yes, that struck me as less strange…”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Molloy say the horizon was burning with?
(a) Forest fires.
(b) Nuclear fire.
(c) Sunset.
(d) Phosphorus.

2. What does the man who visits Molloy take away when he visits?
(a) Laundry.
(b) Instructions.
(c) Money.
(d) Pages.

3. What does Molloy say he wants to finish?
(a) Caring for himself.
(b) Walking.
(c) Dying.
(d) Caring for his mother.

4. Which way does Molloy say A was going, after he met C?
(a) Toward town.
(b) Toward the sea.
(c) Away from town.
(d) Into the forest.

5. What does Molloy say kept him from cutting his testicles off?
(a) His desire for children.
(b) His aversion to pain.
(c) His loathing for eunuchs.
(d) His familiarity with his testicles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Molloy characterize C?

2. What is Molloy trying to do at the beginning of the novel?

3. What does Molloy say four knocks on his mother’s head meant?

4. How does Molloy characterize the internal voices that tell him to stay or to go?

5. What does Molloy say he has in place of principles?

(see the answer key)

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